With clouds encompass'd round; I try'd thee at the water fleep · Of Meriba renown'd. 8 Hear, O my People, bearken wel, I teftify to thee, Thou antient flock of Ifrael, If thou wilt lift to me; 9 Throughout the Land of thy abode No alien God shall be, In honour bend thy knee. to I am the Lord thy God which brought Thee out of Egypt's Land; Afk large enough, and I, befought, Will grant thy full demand. 11 And yet my people would not hear, Nor hearken to my voice; And Ifrael, zuhom I lov'd fo dear, Miflik'd me for his choice. 12 Then did I leave them to their will, 13 O that my People would be wife, To ferve me all their days, And O that Ifrael would advise To walk my righteous ways! 14 Then would I foon bring down their foes, That now fo proudly rise, And turn my hand against all thofe That are their Enemies. N 5 15 Who hate the Lord should then he fais But they, bis People, fhould remain, And fatisfy them from the Rock PSAL. LXXXII. I G OD in the * great * Bagnadatb-el, affembly ftands † Bekerev, Of Kings and lordly States, † Among the Gods, † on both his hands, He judges and debates, * 2 How long will ye * pervert the right Tifh pheta With judgment false and wrong, Favouring the wicked by your might, 3 gravel. * Regard the * weak and fatherless, * Shipbtu-dal. * Dispatch the poor man's caufe, And † raise the man in deep diftrefs By † juft and equal Laws. 4 Defend the poor and defolate, And rescue from the hands Of wicked men the low eftate Of him, that help demands. 5 They know not, nor will understand, The earth's foundations all are mov❜d, ↑ Hatzdiku. * Jimmetu, 6 I faid that ye were Gods, yea all The Sons of God most high; 7 But ye fhall die like men, and fall As other Princes die. 8 Rife, God, * judge thou the earth in might, This wicked earth * redress; For thou art he, who fhalt by right The Nations all poffefs. 'B' PSAL. LXXXIII. E not thou filent now at length, Sit not thou ftill, O God of firength; 2 For lo! thy furious foes now fwell, And storm outragiously, * Shiphia. * Febemajun. And they, that hate thee, proud and fell Exalt their heads full high. 3 Against thy People they † contrive † Jagnarimu. Their Plots and Counfels deep; Them to infnare they chiefly ftrive, ↑ Sod. • Fithjagnatsu gnal. * Whom thou doft hide and keep. * Tfephuneca、 4 Come, let us cut them off, say they, Till they no Nation be, That Ifrael's name for ever may Be loft in memory. 5 For they confult † with all their might, And all as one in mind, Levjachdan. Them . Themselves against thee they unite, 6 The tents of Edom, and the brood Moab, with them of Hagar's blood, 7 Gebal and Ammon there confpire, The Philiftines, and they of Tyre, All these bave lent their armed bands 9 Do to them as to Midian bold, To Sifera, and as is told Thou didst to Jabin's boft, When at the brook of Kishon old 10 At Endor quite cut off, and roll'd II As Zeb and Oreb evil fped, As Zeba and Zalmunna bled, So let their Princes bleed. 12 For they amidst their pride have faid, By right now fhall we feize God's Houfes and will now invade †Their stately Palaces. † Neoth Elobim bears both 13 My God, oh make them as a Wheel, No quiet let them find ; Giddy Giddy and reftlefs let them reel, Like ftubble from the wind. 14 As when an aged wood takes fire, The greedy Flame runs higher and higher, 15 So with thy whirl-wind them pursue, And with thy tempeft chase; 16* And till they yield thee honour due, Lord fill with fhame their face. * They feek thy 17 Asham'd, and troubled, let them be, Name, Heb. Troubl'd, and fham'd for ever, Ever confounded and fo die With fhame, and fcape it never. 18 Then shall they know that thou, whofe name Jehovah is alone, Art the most high, and thou the fame, O'er all the earth art one. 'H° PSAL. LXXXIV. O W lovely are thy dwellings fair, The pleasant Tabernacles are, Where thou doft dwell so near! 2 My Soul doth long, and almost die, Thy Courts, O Lord, to fee, My heart and flesh aloud do cry, O living God for thee. 3 There |